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E8600 Upgrade to a quad?

E8600 @ 4.3ghz is no slouch, personally I wouldn't bother throwing money at a S775 'upgrade', I would get him to save up for a 'proper' upgrade i.e. sandybridge which will give a much more noticeable improvement.

Seems like that's pretty much what you've decided on anyway :)
 
I talked him through my overclock settings and all seems well, didnt go over 52c while playing L4D but at the same time didnt gain any fps. Played SC2 most the day and he didnt crash once. Forgot to check temps but no warnings, said he noticed it loading and performing faster.

Current gfx card is definately the bottleneck which will be fixed soon enough, hopefully by Wednesday but if Im lucky itll be tomorrow.

Not quite sure how much of a boost the cpu would need to compete if that becomes the bottleneck, up to 4.6 maybe but dont think thats possible on air though he does have a pimpin chip, cpuz reporting 1.29v under load.

Well have to see how it all fairs in bf3 on the plus side going crossfire on 4890s will be a cheap solution!
 
Well he's running BF3 on high settings with the new(used) 4890 I got him, granted its not dx11 but he's happy so I dont think there is any need for a new CPU right now. I think it'll definately be crossfire 4890s as a next upgrade then maybe a new mobo/ram/cpu if it comes to it. Hell, I think the next upgrade before the lot will be another 4gig of ram.

TY for the advice all :-)
 
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